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I'm still stuck early in the episode at a piece of clothing being put somewhere in "the bullpen" (which I thought was going to be about Stone being a MLB pitcher for the Chicago Cubs) when someone wins his or her first case. What? Was there a point to that tidbit? And why did Stone drop the other two charges? And why didn't they settle this case anyway before putting the kid on the stand like they would have on L&O? And was dead juror clutching duct-tape in her purple puffy coat both in the judge's chambers and when she ran out of the courtroom? And quit making Nagle's stupid personal life part of this show.
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I actually had my Windows computer hacked by one of these ransom outfits and paid $85 to ransom it, several years ago. My CC company then reversed the charge--by demanding bitcoins, the hackers won't have that happen. I don't know what I clicked on that allowed it to happen. On The Good Wife episode, the main character clicked on a pop-up on her screen and boom, there it was. I would hope an outfit like Chicago Med would have safeguards in place that would prevent an individual being able to activate the ransomware, but apparently it is behind on its system security if, as Splendorkable noted, it isn't even constantly backing up all its files (in which case the IT department could have wiped the servers and restored the files).
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The Good Wife did it too (but didn't pay the ransom).
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Robyn had pretty sudden onset but maybe she stopped taking her meds for bipolar or whatever. She was to the point of tears early in the episode when she told Rhodes her research was imperiled because of the system being down, which I pointed out to Mr MML (seriously, your research? Not to mention the patients whose lives are imperiled). Papa Charles seemed to have major tablet withdrawal issues.
Robyn can share a stateroom with Nina on the cruise to Ex-lover Island.
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This 4/6 article https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2017/04/05/save-our-shows-2017-returning-canceled-bubble-shows/99982602/ puts Justice on the renewal bubble and considers the other three Chicagos to be shoo-ins for renewal. I won't be surprised if Justice bites the dustice.
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I was so hoping Splendorkable, after commenting that the hospital should be constantly backing its records up and that hard drives are so cheap (thus showing us he knows his IT stuff), would have hacked into the hacked system and fixed it.
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I don't really want to see much of the characters' outside personal lives but I definitely want/need at least indirect reminders that they have them so they are multidimensional. Totally agree that the Chicago writers are terrible at this and continuity in general. And yes this was originally Seda's show imo but I think Voight's character became so compelling and Jason Beghe is so strong that Seda got pushed to the side; imo he's not that well written on Justice either.
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11 minutes ago, Raja said:
Merely his cover story because his Navy Reserve SEAL Team 66 got an emergency deployment orders
To save an orphanage while carrying the only vaccine against both ebola and AIDS in a tiny vial clenched between his manly teeth as he dodged bullets running across an open plain
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I don't think Marina will be destitute if her leave isn't completely paid for. I believe you can take official parental leave in the USA before the baby is born, but that shortens the time you would have after the baby is born plus you are just sitting around waiting for the baby to come anyway. Pretty sure most USA companies have to allow a certain amount of parental leave, but may not have to pay the employee during it.
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Al has had a lot of time on the Other Chicagos (fine by me--if he wants to come to my suburb I'll be glad to make him dinner).
I am loving Burgess now--what is wrong with me?? I'm even okay with Ruzek. WTF?
MML Son did some Chicago clubbing in his youth and the birthday party barhopping rang true from what he reported to us (not so much the predatory behavior by those pathetic men). Mr MML was literally cheering at Voight's last scene.
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Just watched this episode on demand. I guess we know where Stone stands on the death penalty.
Picky, I know, but I was also curious that he prosecuted the serial killer eight years ago. He doesn't seem old enough to have been assigned such a big case back then considering he was a major league baseball player first (who apparently wasn't a star pitcher, so must have spent some seasons coming up through the minors), so three years of law school (that's the Northwestern full time curriculum) on top of that....
Nagle's back story, missing a mandated drug test I think--why??? And her kid's father with full custody never has unexpected events that keep him from picking up the kid? This kind of personal crap involving the viewers and trying to tug at our heartstrings killed SVU for me. Quit it, Show. I had to rewatch five episodes of Justified to love Joelle again.
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1 hour ago, Ailianna said:
It is a psychological disorder. And they can't report Dr. Charles and "make him lose his license" because he doesn't have the same health requirements that a pilot does, because if he has a heart attack or stroke or faints at work, no one dies. That's why it was going to cost the pilot his license, not because he has a problem, but because his problem makes him a danger to passengers and therefore not safe to fly.
Well, pardon me for posting. You go have a nice life now.
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I don't think I like medical shows much, at least this one. The Dr. Rowan storyline was just stupid on so many levels. Does Halsted think people will live forever? I mean, I do, but I'm not an MD.
I like Nina--I hope we still see her once she ditches Halsted.
Is pica a psychological problem or a physical one--don't some people eat things because their bodies crave a missing mineral? Paste was my snack in first grade. Won't the pilot and his wife report Dr Charles for confessing that he is compulsive so he can lose his license too?
I'm really surprised Rhodes didn't ask the boy what he thought about losing his arm.
Starri, Doris Resting Nurse Face--ha! I believe Robyn has Resting Knowing Smile Face which drives me crazy. Manning is afflicted with Resting Overly Concerned Face.
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I watched last week's recorded PD just before watching this Fire episode. Both featured young white women who were addicts. Writers block? I was impressed that the Fire addict was not attractive or endearing.
I too thought the crack house story was pretty ridiculous--the "rescue" of the girl was more like an intervention, what with her parents right there! Seriously, wouldn't you be afraid they were in some danger being brought into that house? Did anyone check the whole place? I was hoping the daughter would actually be the mastermind of the operation, but no. At the very least she has now been enabled by being gotten out of the arrest instead of having to face her own decisions. And how did the mom even know where daughter was? And the kid in the car was in no immediate danger of freezing--no one was bundled up for bitter cold--better to call PD. Not to mention how pissed PD would be that Fire totally screwed up their carefully planned raid on the house. Finally, my most nitpicky comment on this storyline: the addict's family lived in Bucktown but the street address on their house was 48XX--Bucktown stops at 3000 at its most northern tip, and does not go beyond 2400 on the west.
My theory is that Anna is either pregnant or just learned she had a relapse. I don't know if the actress is into the show for the long haul; if she is, Kelly will marry her as she will be pregnant; if not, she will make the heartwrenching decision not to tell Kelly she has relapsed.
I told Mr MML that no good deed will go unpunished for Gabby and Sylvie, and sure enough, they have to go through training again (which elicited a quick little squeal of pleasure from Sylvie--she is really very funny). Seriously, they should have let the trainee fail--he not only had contact with a victim, he caused harm to him. I thought sure Boden's evil superior was going to be the one in the meeting with them and he would again put House on probation or something.
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Yes, I would have smacked Gabby if I were the detective and pushed her in the way of the boulder. Her photo is in the dictionary next to insufferable, Artsda. Plus wipe some of that makeup off, FGS.
I called the motorcycle guy immediately.
Sort of a nothing story for alderman Casey and his complaining constituent.
Hoped the pub crawl guy was a scammer but no.
Anna, you're a big girl, make some friends on your own.
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Yes, and to me this lack of personal involvement makes Justice a misfit in the Chicago show universe. In the L&Os, excepting SVU which I never could get into (okay, I hated), the personal stuff was through the workplace perspective--e.g., we "saw" Ray's wife's MS progression only as Ray's coworkers did, from a distance. McCoy's randy history was exposed with the tiniest crumbs for the most part--I think his Claire romance wasn't even picked up on by most viewers until that episode about his former assistant throwing out evidence as a romantic favor to him. In the Chicago universe we would have occasionally seen them physically all over each other.
Although personally I much prefer the L&O approach, it makes no sense that Justice follows that approach in that it's in the Chicago universe--Dick Wolf should have just brought back L&O, in NYC, which was awesome and very city-dependent.
Totally off topic, I always thought NBC killed Dick Wolf with the Jay Leno in primetime move in fall of 2009. All the 9:00 pm Central/10:00 Eastern time slots went to Leno, and all the serious shows that used to have those slots got moved to early slots--L&O was moved 7 eastern time, Friday nights. Family time, sure, why not. Even though Leno prime time was cancelled in January 2010, the damage was done and L&O was cancelled that May.
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I don't know why Dawson was involved in the first case as a regular cop, as shown by his testimony at trial, and now he's involved in this case doing the exact same thing as a SA investigator. This is one of the things that really bugs me about this show--I can see if there was some specialized investigating that needed to be done (and then they would probably be "special investigators" with areas of expertise far removed from homicide investigation, like forensic accounting, etc.). But I am going to move past that, really I am. Soon, any day now. Mr. MML thinks he is part of all the Chicagos and that the characters are his friends in real life, so I am stuck watching them.
I wish Show would let Law and Order go and really make this Chicago Justice (or really Cook County Justice, I guess). It looks like we are only ever going to see homicide cases. Bleah. Chicago has a rich history of criminal activity and homicide is just the tip of the iceberg here! It's not NYC light.
I was so disappointed that Mrs. Marcus wasn't having an affair with Pig Farmer and masterminded the original fatal fire simply to get rid of her husband--I cannot believe the defense lawyer didn't put her feet to the fire when she testified that she and Marcus were fighting and having marital problems and he went to sleep in the pig barn and that her son blamed her for Marcus's death. Then she could have moved on to the dead cop. I also didn't think the bruising on the body was indefensible and don't know why Pig Farmer took a plea. But mostly I can't believe the small town cop didn't turn out to be smarter than anyone realized and was also involved, perhaps being paid off a la Voight in the early PD episodes for certain favors for the Pig Man, as he was so insistent that the cop's death was a suicide when so obviously it was not. Not to mention what a stupid way to kill someone--surely there would be an easier more believable way to do it. Like just whack him and drop him off in one of the enormous forest preserves near Lemont, like we do in real life.
Valdez can leave any time now. Her character has such little weight that the show loses its bearings imo whenever she is in a scene. Like someone let a tween sit at the big table in court, or something.
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15 hours ago, Dowel Jones said:
The irony is that Dawson was operating waaaay out of her scope of practice, unless medics in CFD are trained in surgical procedures. If JB dies, or is adversely impacted by blood loss to the brain, CFD might find itself on the business end of a malpractice lawsuit. But of course she would alternately snarl and smile her way through her testimony and win over the jury to save the day.
And then the jury foreman would collapse and Gabby would perform open heart surgery on her using only a nailfile and the judge's gavel.
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Yeah, pretty good one--fun watching Hank prove he treats everyone equally by slamming Mrs BadGuy around in the garage and piercing her hand for her.
I loved loved loved the desk scene when Alvin comes back to work and the interactions among Trudy, Hank, and him. The development of two generations of characters without stereotyping is so good in this show--these three are completely believable as comrades who go way back together and their compassion on Alvin's mourning was just perfect.
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5 hours ago, Ailianna said:
Actually, they ARE cops, in the sense that they are licensed police officers in the state of Illinois and have police credentials and arrest powers, et cetera. Their assignment is with the state's attorney's office, and they aren't supposed to do investigations from scratch unless there's a reason the normal police agency can't (like investigating a cop, for instance, or certain public officials, or so on that they want handled by the prosecutor's office from the get go), but they are cops.
I called them "cops" in the thread about the first episode and got spanked for it. Dawson and Nagle have done nothing that the characters on PD don't do, so imo if they quack like cops, they're cops. I did comment to Mr MML that I'm surprised D&N dress so casually, like they're undercover detectives (like most of the featured characters on PD except my Trudy)--I would think they would dress up a little more. Just another reason I think I'm over this show.
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I really enjoyed this episode and thought Stella's part was just fabulous--she joked with Kelly about his new girlfriend, she was the medical go-to for the gunshot, she got smacked around into the lockers, she saved Kelly in the bathrooom, and she was just one of the guys walking back into the House at the end. Nice job, Miranda Rae Mayo (why yes I did just look her name up).
Mr. MML and I kept saying, "What is he doing?" as Kelly just slinked around what, the locker room?, almost the whole episode. I couldn't believe he didn't come up with a plan to save the day, or at least to get out of the House and get help; he just reminded me of Gollum lurking around the fellowship of the ring. And the guy who smacked Stella around, when he was looking for her in the locker room, under the bench, on top of the lockers--that sort of made me laugh. It was like a French farce where people keep coming in and out of rooms on a long hall.
Show totally got me with Herman's fake heart attack. Well played! And yes to Otis doing the whole release the pressure on the heart procedure, and Cruz volunteering to drive the Squad for the bad guys.
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I think I'm done with this show.
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At the miscarriage, April was 19 weeks (she had told Maggie at the beginning of the previous episode that she had 21 weeks to go). IRL I imagine she would not have continued working post-TB diagnosis if her MD told her not to (not sure if her docs suggested she take time off). I think Show painted her into a corner plotwise (plus they already had Manning's pregnancy and birth storylines, with a dead husband vs TB for drama). I wonder if the actress had other acting prospects so the writers didn't want to invest much more at the time. But sorry to see Tate go as he is one good-looking guy....
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The few times we saw Wheeler he was asking directly or indirectly for help. Reese particularly but also Rhodes, and if Goodwin has made it her mission to be sure all the young'uns are safe, she sure wasn't proactively looking for those who might need help. I think they will need a long time cope with feelings of guilt about that.
Wheeler's dad was good.
Didn't we just see Manning unfairly harangued by a mom when two boys were hurt and she chose which one to get the machine? Seriously, she can just go away now. The level of sorrow the rest of the cast displayed vs her over-emoting was telling. The actress shouldn't be on a show with actors who are so much better imo--the scene near the end with understated Goodwin and Charles was exquisite. And Reese with a mask on observing heart operation can outact her with just her eyes showing.
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Chicago Med Spoilers & Speculation
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The little I've seen of Anna on Fire, and I don't know the actress, is that she can act circles around many of the actors on Med imo, so better to keep her off for their sakes. She works nicely on Fire and has very nice chemistry with Severide imo.